Discussion: Maureen Dowd's Cannabis Tour Guide Says He Warned Her About Edibles

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I can imagine the look of terror on the candy bar’s face right before it was consumed.

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“Oh, it hurts…but I kind of like it.” M&M candy while being licked by woman in commercial.

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A least she stayed away from the brown acid.

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Caption for Dowd’s selfie:

That damn Colorado pot made the right side of my head way too heavy. I finally know what the cool kids meant when they said “heavy, man!” back in the 1960s.

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She wasn’t paying attention, obviously. Kind of like how she doesn’t pay attention every other day.

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So, Mo lied…Again… NO surprise at all…

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Here’s the first rule of speaking to reporters. Make sure you have a recorder taping the conversation/interview and of course advise the reporter that the conversation/interview is being taped.

Reason why? Reporters/journalists are liars and you need to have the evidence of them lying.

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“Extreme reaction”? “Whether or not it was common”? I’m not the expert but if you take 16 times the recommended amount of a recreational drug you’re likely to have an “extreme reaction,” I think it would indeed be “common” for that to happen, seeing as how you didn’t pay attention like an idiot and took a huge fucking overdose.

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If anyone is predisposed to having a bad trip, it’s MoDo.

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Here’s a fun Alex Pareene piece about her perennial inaccuracy:

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/please_fire_maureen_dowd_or_get_her_a_fact_checker/

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I’ve never read any of her columns, but I’m given to understand that she IS a sort of silly person.

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Um, I’m a reporter and a journalist, and I’m not a liar, never once been accused of it, and the very few who do make stuff up get their asses fired in short order. It’s absolutely not tolerated. If you’ve had a bad experience, which you don’t say explicitly, then that’s a shame. Reporters do make mistakes, about as often as car repair people, surgeons, and most of the rest of us do. I’d strongly recommend that anyone talking to a reporter organize his or her thoughts, think of a few main points you want to make, and have a handout with the most important facts available to give the reporter if possible. And never let Maureen Dowd write about you.

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Indeed. Ms “married to her job” is fortunate NOT to have a SO, because if she did they would dump her like yesterdays garbage.

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“I reckoned that the fact that I was not a regular marijuana smoker made me more vulnerable, and that I should have known better”

Say it with me now:
Metabolism, metabolism, metabolism.

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Well, I’m STUNNED…
An NYT ‘reporter’ appears not to listen to her interview subject, intentionally ignores his information and does wants she’s intended all along…Judy? No, pot-crazed MoDo. Matt Brown should be happy MoDoob ate the candy when he wasn’t near or she’d have been on him like a cheap suit.

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Gawd, watta puss.

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Maureen Dowd is an idiot anyway.
Her “columns” in the NYT are nothing more than narcissistic ramblings of the “problems” an “upper-class-genius” like HER faces trying to “live” in New York City.
They are nothing but: “Sex in the City” without the good looking one.

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I know this is tin foil hat territory, but I wonder if the entire story could have been a creation in order to make legal cannabis look bad? That wouldn’t be terribly unrealistic IMO.

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Think about it, she conveniently has no witnesses as she chose to partake alone in a hotel room? That raises a huge flag right there.

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